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From: milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS TCP behaviour
Message-ID: <26E743C5.13015@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 90 06:52:53 GMT
References: <956@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In <956@massey.ac.nz> GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) writes:

>As our network load continues to rise we are finding that the
>performance of the Telnet program that comes with PC-NFS is causing
>people a great deal of frustration.  The problem is that there a alot
>of pauses in the receipt of characters going to and from the hosts.
>One can be typing a command and get significantly ahead of the echo
>on the screen.  When running full screen editors like gnumacs, it
>gets very confussing very quickly as the position of the cursor in
>reality often differs from the position on the screen by large
>amounts.

    I'm one of the people who was complained before now, both to our 
    own support group and the net, about this behaviour (or should I
    say misbehaviour).  I want to add my voice to Glen's inquiry.
    Please, if anybody has made any progress in finding out the cause 
    of these insistent pauses, share whatever you have got.  It's one of 
    the few parts of PC-NFS that really seriously frustrate me.

    Here's a little clue, probably worth very little.  This is a description
    of our PC-NFS setup on a microchannel machine:
    - PC-NFS 3.0.1  (PCNFS.SYS /f20 /b1 /d5)
    - SOCKDRV.SYS
    - WD8003E/A  (i.e. microchannel version of the WD8003E)
    - the N.D.I.S. driver NFS-NDIS.SYS from Clarkson
    - the protocol manager section from MS's L.A.N. Manager (PROTMAN.SYS,
      PROTMAN.INI, NETBIND.EXE)
    - Western Digital's LANMAN driver for the WD8003E/A (MACWD.SYS)

    PC-NFS telnet pauses as frequently here as when using just WD8003E.SYS 
    on AT-bus machines.

    Not much, but it's about all I have.  That and the fact that using 386Max
    to load PCNFS.SYS high on the AT-bus machines makes no difference either, 
    though I hardly expected that it would.  (Loading it high on the
    microchannel machine seems to keeping NETBIND from binding correctly.)

    Please, any clues anywhere?

    Alastair Milne,
    U. Calif. Irvine